Chapter 8. Modules
In the last two chapters, we learned about bundling code into scripts and functions. In this chapter, we will learn about using modules to bundle multiple functions or script files that are full of functions into a single container. There's more to modules than simply grouping things together. Altogether, we will learn the following:
- What is a module?
- Where do modules live?
- Loading and unloading a module
- PowerShell module autoloading
Packaging functions
We learned in the last two chapters that you can put a bunch of functions in a script file, and then dot-source this file to get these functions into a session. Consider the following script, called AreaFunctions.ps1:
After dot-sourcing the script file, we can use the functions and ...
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